6,000 Most Frequent Characters (Traditional)

There’s a copy of everything below [HERE] because it seems like I can’t make edits once it’s uploaded. Go [HERE] for the most recent edition. These are the 6,000 most frequently used traditional Chinese characters based on a list created by Shih-Kun Huang hosted on Chih-Hao Tsai's Technology Page. Card Front: Card Back: The card templates can also be reversed to display pinyin on the front with the character on the back. Above each card is the frequency # and links directly to the character on YellowBridge.com, MDBG.net and a vocabulary list generated by MandarinTools.com. This idea came from the outstanding “Most Common 3000 Chinese Hanzi Characters" deck. I wish I was focused on simplified! MDBG.net and Purple Culture's Chinese Tools were an indispensable part of creating this database. The CSS for fonts were copied and pasted from a blog post on Kendra Schaefer’s website. Google Sheets, LibreOffice, a lot of googling how to use excel and A LOT of copying and pasting brought everything together. If I knew then what I know now, it would have come together a lot faster! Tips for using the deck: I created a Chinese flashcard set using SuperMemo and a PalmPilot many, many moons ago... I added each card manually back then using the Practical Audio-Visual books published by National Taiwan Normal University. You could just get gungho and blaze through this deck without context or… You could pause the whole deck and add characters as they come in up in the textbooks you're using. This way you could separate the process of memorizing the characters and memorizing the vocabulary. You could also add sample vocabulary to each card as you move through the deck as I have in the example above. The cards currently lack sample vocabulary. It's pretty simple to style up the cards how you want them as well. When you jump into the card browser there's a “Cards..." button. Click that. This is where you can flip the deck or change the fonts. (Note: Going gungho through the first few hundred might not be a bad idea as they will come up ALL the time. There are tags for every 100 to make that easy for you. :) ) Here’s the Google Spreadsheet with commenting on. Here’s a Facebook Group I put together to discuss future decks and troubleshoot. Email can go to caseyabbottpayne at gmail dot com for questions/comments/corrections.